4th January 2011

Today we did some work on archetypes and gestus to prevent us from slipping into naturalism, including exploring manerisms and exaggerating them such as:

• The politician and protesters (Olly threw his arms about talking in an upper class accent while Mark and I shouted lies etc).
• Journalists (taking notes, pushing glasses up nose. Papparrazi, camera in hand ''photo'', Olly being Cheryl Cole..)
• Soldiers (Mark and I standing upright whilst Olly marched in front shouting throwing his head about)
• Big business owner (''Daddy, can I have a pony?'', Mark bent spine, frantically writing as Olly tells him to fire workers.)

We also talked about adding some more scenes into the play to fill it out a bit and finnally recording the script to get it out and learn it as soon as possible, particularly if anyone's absent.